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Poets & Writers

EDITORS' PICKS

  • Sherman Alexie on Mania, Bipolarity and Great Art
    The National Book Award winner talks candidly about how his mental illness has influenced his work.
  • Poetry Readings by Wendell Berry
    The visionary poet, environmentalist and farmer Wendell Berry reads and talks about two of his poems -- "The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer" and "A Poem on Hope."
  • Rita Dove on the Power of Poetry
    Through performances and conversation, Bill Moyers and the former Poet Laureate explore American history, language, culture, and ideas.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Jane Kenyon
    April 13, 2020
    "From Room to Room" and "Finding a Long Gray Hair"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Joy Harjo
    April 9, 2020
    "For Calling the Spirit Back From Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet"
  • Poets & Writers
    On Howling in Mill Valley and Walt Whitman’s "Barbaric Yawp"
    April 8, 2020
    | Thomas Singer
    Whitman would be proud of the people of Mill Valley, California, and their new nightly ritual of communal howling at each other out of their windows.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Maya Angelou
    April 7, 2020
    Reading "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Alice Walker
    April 3, 2020
    “You Too Can Look, Smell, Dress, Act This Way”
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky on Big Bailouts
    April 1, 2020
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM
    The CARES Act. Bill Moyers talks with Neal Barofsky, former TARP investigator general, about how he would safeguard the two trillion dollar government program to rescue an economy crippled from the coronavirus. “There’s going to be scandal…there’s going to be fraud.”
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Galway Kinnell
    March 31, 2020
    "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Deborah Garrison
    March 30, 2020
    "She Thinks of Him on Her Birthday"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Adrienne Rich
    March 26, 2020
    "What Kind of Times Are These" and "In Those Years"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Octavio Paz
    March 25, 2020
    "Trowbridge Street"


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